The ever-implacable #fashion industry is churning with change, which some hypothesize as its savior, and others as its demise. In fact, given how that chimes with the black/white, right/wrong politics dominating contemporary culture, maybe it’s symptomatic of the times in which we live. And perhaps that is why #RickOwens is rejecting it. He is a contrarian. “I don't have to do anything I don't want to,” Owens once told me, face inscrutable. “I could just burn the whole fucking place down." #Owens was talking, specifically, about his business operation, but it’s not difficult to imagine him razing fashion as a whole. That’s sometimes what it feels like watching Rick Owens’s shows, which are always remarkable. More and more, he distances himself from the rest of the industry by the rare quality that his clothes look entirely, frequently uncompromisingly new. New can mean alien, so barely do they adhere to the tenets of garment history. “They do look like something that isn’t finished,” Owens scoffed, sardonically, in his West Coast drawl, of his #Spring2017 collection.